xlii REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
V. A Resonvrion has been received 
From the Committee of Recommendations. 
‘That the Council be requested to consider the present practice 
of reckoning unspent balances of grants as part of the funds 
available for redistribution, and to report if any alteration in the 
practice is advisable.’ 
It was reported to the Council that certain Research Committees had 
found it a hardship to be expected to return unspent balances of grants 
early in the summer following their first appointment. 
The Council therefore resolved to propose :— 
(a) To set aside the Standing Order passed at the Dublin Meeting 
in 1908, under which any balance of a grant remaining un- 
expended at the time of the Annual Meeting next after that 
at which the grant was made, must be regarded as having 
reverted to the funds of the Association. 
(b) To amend Rule 6, chap. iv., as follows, viz. :— 
To omit these words :— 
The Chairman must then either return the balance of the 
grant, if any, which remains unexpended, or, if further ex- 
penditure be contemplated, apply for leave to retain the 
balance. 
and to substitute :— 
The Chairman must then return the balance of the grant, if 
any, which remains unexpended ; provided that a Research 
Committee may, in the first year of its appointment only, 
apply for leave to retain an unexpended balance when or 
before its report is presented, due reason being given for 
such application. 
VI. A Resolution, referred to the Council by the General Committee 
at Portsmouth, has been received. 
From Sections D and H. 
‘ That the Council be approached with the view of requesting His 
Majesty’s Government to equip a vessel for the purpose of making a 
biological and anthropological exploration in Oceania at the close of 
the meeting of the British Association in Australia in 1914.’ 
The Council appointed the following Committee to report on any 
necessary steps in this connection: The President and General Officers, 
Professor G. C. Bourne, and Dr. A. C. Haddon. On the report of this 
Committee, it was resolved that no immediate action be taken, but that 
the Committee be allowed to remain in being, with a view to advising the 
Council as occasion might arise in the future. 
VII. A Resolution, referred to the Council by the General Committee 
at Portsmouth, has been received 
